Editing Starr Records

{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Starr Records
| image       = StarrRecord.jpg
| image_size  = 200px
| parent      = Starr Piano Company
| founded     = {{start date|1915}}
| founder     = Starr Piano Company
| fate        = <!-- explain the reason of the closing-->
| defunct     = {{end date|1917}}
| status      = Defunct
| distributor = 
| genre       = [[Jazz]]
| country     = U.S.
| location    = [[Richmond, Indiana]]
}}

'''Starr Records''' was a [[record label]] founded by the Starr Piano Company of [[Richmond, Indiana]]. [[Gennett Records]] was also owned by Starr Piano.<ref name="New Grove">{{cite book|last1=Rye|first1=Howard|editor1-last=Kernfeld|editor1-first=Barry|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz|date=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1-56159-284-6|page=651|volume=3|edition=2nd}}</ref>

Starr's first discs were [[vertical cut recording|vertical cut]] [[phonograph record|records]] in the mid 1910s based on [[Edison Records]] standard found in the [[Edison Disc Record]]. They were discontinued in 1917. The Starr label was continued through much of the 1920s in [[Canada]], pressed and distributed by [[Compo Company]] Ltd., mostly issuing sides that were released in the U.S. on Gennett.

An unrelated Starr Records made records in Australia which were sold in the [[Coles Supermarkets|Coles]] chain.

== See also ==
* [[List of record labels]]

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[[Category:Record labels established in 1915]]
[[Category:Record labels disestablished in 1917]]
[[Category:Richmond, Indiana]]
[[Category:Defunct companies based in Indiana]]
[[Category:American jazz record labels]]